the inner japanese

in me is going specialist and dedicating my time to learning benibana. especially after i bought half a kilo locally and have the opportunity to buy more .

it's not that ive mastered aizome, but i can produce acceptable pieces and have an understanding of how it works. needless to say i can learn more but i would like to tackle benibana, being the complex difficult dye it is.

it's all about romance really.natural dyes,that is.

i've parked the maiwa assignments ,now it's building your color palette, bcse i need to go downtown for a black sharpie pen.  could have made use of the free time during the bank holiday,but wanted to finish debbuging the weaving. more about that following.

neki desu 

 

aki no kyoto

have a good weekend

neki desu

 

there's a science involved in the print paste

 the freshness of it, the amount to print not too much as to create blobs along the edges, not too little  as the print will not be sharp and clear and  many other  variables that escape me.

the process has to become automatic the proverbial 100 repetitions in order to be competent and confident.

iffy,but better. remembered to dunge it but i think it needed more time.

my buckthorn dyes brown,go figure!

tonight is opera night,norma.

casta diiivaaaa.che inargenti queste sacre antiche piante...

neki desu